253:. Linnoinen wanted Valmet to fabricate the engine. Another small team was assembled, consisting of Chief Engineer Mauno Ylivakeri, Head Designer Kalevi Salminen, Development Team Manager Timo Mäkinen, and Jarmo Kallio who was responsible for testing. The team at Valmet would be responsible for building the engine and adapting the car. The engine, named the
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engine, but to arrange for intake ports on both sides of the vee to be inside the valley and exhausts to be outside, flow through one head was reversed; the intake ports became exhausts and vice versa. Pistons and connecting rods were also standard Saab B202 parts. The block was cast at the Valmet
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The completed engine weighed 217 kg (478.4 lb), about 60 kg (132.3 lb) heavier than the B202. It produced 280 hp (208.8 kW), and 243 ft⋅lb (330 N⋅m) of torque.
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